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Joshua Whitehouse aka Jowybean

Jowybean [Joshua Whitehouse] is a 24 year old freelance illustrator, character designer, storyboard and comic artist living in Birmingham, UK.

Jowybean was set up 18 months ago and his work has included a variety of International Projects in both illustration and animation. From designing banners for a travel… Read More

Jowybean [Joshua Whitehouse] is a 24 year old freelance illustrator, character designer, storyboard and comic artist living in Birmingham, UK.

Jowybean was set up 18 months ago and his work has included a variety of International Projects in both illustration and animation. From designing banners for a travel website, illustrating for designers across the UK and creating the storyboards for animation companies – Second Homes and Nice Monster. Jowybean has also rebranded ‘Monsters Mayhem’, a kids play centre at Star City and has had work shown in IDW Comics, York’s Café, Birmingham and the RBSA (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists).

Jowy likes watching travel vlogs, Time-lapse videos, talking about his diverse taste in music, and creating art for his favourite animated shows . His latest project is seeing the launch of his ambitious comic called humanisation.com. Read Less

worked with the creative director and also independently to fulfil design briefs of the local area. I designed leaflets for restaurants, car services and towards the end of the placement was asked to illustrate and create the brand identity for ‘Monster Mayhem’ , a kids play area at Star City.
I was an efficient intern and had responsibility over checking the prints and answering the telephone for the director, The director regularly contacts me for freelance work.

May – June 2013 – internship as a concept and storyboard artist at Second Home Animation Studio Birmingham

Working under the direction of Chris Randall, I Was Given responsibility to create the storyboard layout and design the characters and settings to be turned into animations. I worked quickly and followed the director’s instructions. My role was to read through the script, give the director a foundation to work from by sketching the storyboard. I would then ask for feedback and adjust my illustrations to fit his criteria,
I supported Chris by aiding him in creating his animations using my concepts. Chris still contacts me to do storyboard commissions when required.

met the director Steven Spencer through networking. I worked with a team of animators, listening to their ideas and incorporating their vision for the various shorts. I enjoyed the challenging aspect of the project. The outcome of the three years was working with Steven on the ‘first light’ shorts which encouraged young people to go into film-making, my illustrations responded well to the brief and target audience.

Helped launch the ‘Slow Boat Project’ by suggesting ideas, meeting artists and curating an exhibition on the canal boat .

May 2010 – Art curator at Visualize Festival, Birmingham Used knowledge of the art industry to choose artworks submitted by the public which were suitable and would fit in with the design of the new Midlands Art Centre for an exhibition.

May 2009 - Volunteer with the HI8us Comix Project, Birmingham Helped create an anthology comic for the International Comic Festival in Spain whilst being mentored by Hunt Emerson and John Mccrea.

May 2008 - Work Experience with Blue Chilli Graphics Studio, Birmingham Honed in on Photoshop and Indesign skills to create graphic work for various clients

Commissions

Commissioned by IDW comics to design a comic cover for ‘My little Pony, Friendship Is Magic’

Designed a Christmas Card for Bosch Car Services

Worked with a fashion designer helping him create mood boards for a future product he was going to release

Created promotional material for the BBC3 documentary ‘Autistic Superstars’.

Commissioned by Rick Wakeman and UB40 in my early teens to draw their caricatures

Auctioned a piece of behalf of the 9/11 victims charity to raise money for the Vinegar Hill firefighters and all affected by the event Read Less

Humanise.com Comic project

Humanise.com is an ambitious comic/graphic novel that is been written by my father and drawn by me. its still in development and new material will appear for it soon.

1000 years ago earth is wiped out by war of neutral bombs. At this time the Internet, as we know it was been updated and had began to think inde… Read More

Humanise.com is an ambitious comic/graphic novel that is been written by my father and drawn by me. its still in development and new material will appear for it soon.

1000 years ago earth is wiped out by war of neutral bombs. At this time the Internet, as we know it was been updated and had began to think independently. Now 1000 years later the Internet has transformed in to a virtual reality where severs websites and programs of all kinds have become living breathing beings connecting together to from a thriving metropolis. Our two main protagonists CADRA the normal farm girl working in the code fields and Mutt her pet dragon suddenly embark on an epic quest to find the code that could bring down the controlling powers of the big bosses Google Apple and many others but what is this mysterious code you say? Read Less